Ad Review: Olympic Champs and Chumps (Portfolio.com via Yahoo! Finance) Stuart Elliott reviews all the commercials from the Beijing Olympics today and awards medals of gold , tin and lead . Here's one of each. This gold-medal spot for United was "superb," says Elliott: ...(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:11:05 GMT)
Dynasties abound in Arizona (The Arizona Republic)More and more, high school football in Arizona appears to be the stuff of which dynasties are made.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:33:27 GMT)
'Flat Boks need a super booster, fast' (Independent Online)The Boks went from being World champs to chumps in the space of just a few weeks, writes Jacques van der Westhuyzen.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:38:06 GMT)
ALEX PERSONIFIES TEAM'S FAILURES (New York Post)THE crowd stood, cheering and chanting. "Let's Go A-Rod" morphing into "Let's Go Yankees." It was the seventh inning. But it was more than the seventh inning. It felt like a whole season was on the line. And like a flyball that will find the...(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:21:45 GMT)
The Three Stooges Collection - Volume Three - 1940-1942 (DVD Talk)Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard - The Three Stooges - return for another round of classic comedies in The Three Stooges Collection - Volume Three - 1940-1942 , a marvelous set of two-reelers "presented in their original release order."(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:20:55 GMT)
Saskatchewan looks like anything but champs (Canada.com)As litmus tests go, this one looked hard to beat, right up until the Saskatchewan Roughriders proved to be anything but. And that didn't take long at all.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:08:55 GMT)
A bettor’s guide to sports books (Las Vegas Sun)It might be fun to speculate about sports betting’s “wise guys,” about what they’re up to on any given football Sunday, about which teams they think will cover the spread, about how many piles of money they’re betting and where they’re betting them.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:06:35 GMT)
Police dressed like tourists arrest 40 panhandlers (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)Atlanta police officers are dressing up just like sightseers who come to Atlanta to wander through Centennial Olympic Park or locals who work in Midtown highrises. All in the name of catching people who beg for money and won't take no for an answer. Since Aug. 2, Atlanta police officers have gone undercover and arrested 44 panhandlers and warned 51 others about the law when it comes aggressive ...(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:31:31 GMT)
Team USA needs to take Argentina seriously (Fox Sports)The way Team USA is playing, it would be easy to take Argentina for granted. Charley Rosen says that would be a mistake.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:30:21 GMT)